Live from Nashville: The Resurrection begins now. Citizen Palin and The Tea Party begin their march to the White House

I attended this past weekend’s National Tea Party Convention in Nashville, Tennessee.  It was one of the most thrilling events, so far, in my comparitively short life. We are witnessing a new Great Awakening.  This time around, it’s America’s politicians and parties.  The politicians have become corrupt and out-of-touch.  And, we the people, are taking back what we have lost, and what has been stolen from us.

Of course, Sarah Palin mesmerized the crowd with her eloquent attacks on overspending, weak national defense, slack morals, and broken promises.  But the heart of her speech was this:

Now, the people are about to reclaim what is rightly theirs.  Change is coming, folks, and it started coming this weekend.   Hurrah and hosannas!  Onward and upward!  As Walt Whitman once wrote:

“All power is inherent in the people.”  

Check out the Christian Science Monitor's article on Sarah's Speech: "Sarah Palin's Speech a hit."

Unscrew the locks from the doors!
Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs!

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Palin Urges Sarah Palin Urges A GOP-Tea Party Merger

While many of the most conservative politicians in the country have now weaseled out of next week's National Tea Party Convention in Nashville, the headliner is still planning to show up. You have to wonder if they backed out in fear of being blown our of the water by the Ex-Governor.

Sarah Palin told Fox News on Thursday that, unlike Reps. Michelle Bachmann (R-Minn) and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), she still intends to speak at the convention, despite the growing controversy over the obscure for-profit entity running the event. Let's face it folks...this little to-do over the sponsor of the massive tea-party gives them a chance to run for the hills.

"Oh, you betcha I'm going to be there," Palin told Greta Van Susteren. "I'm going to speak there because there are people traveling from many miles away to hear what that tea party movement is all about and what that message is that should be received by our politicians in Washington. I'm honored to get to be there."

Citizen Palin will receive $100,000 to deliver the keynote address at the conference. Her fee, she said, "go right back into the cause" as donations "to people and to events, those things that I believe in that will help perpetuate the message, the message being, Government, you have constitutional limits. You better start abiding by them."
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Michelle Bachman chickens out of the Tea Party to end all Tea Parties

That upcoming Tea Party convention of Republican (and Democratic!) activists lost two prominent speakers last Thursday-- the latest sign of factionalism and disagreement over how highlight the movement as an insurgent political force.

Republican Reps. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota and Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee canceled their appearances after being billed as speakers at the gathering. Ex-Governor Sarah Palin remains the headline speaker at the event.
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